Wilhelmina Nicholls has lived all her life in the Cove, isolated from mainstream Cornish society. Mixing with strangers is frowned upon, but she has managed to evade her family long enough to strike up a friendship with ""up-overer"" Denzil Vargo. But a sixteen-year-old secret is about to shatter all their hopes and dreams . . .

Stormy Waters

Literature & Fiction

Aitken, Rosemary

Genre Fiction

Severn House

After a startling revelation led ""Sprat"" Nicholls to break off with her childhood sweetheart, Denzil Vargo, and quarrel with her family, she was determined to get as far away from her native Cornwall as possible -- and London, three hundred miles from home, seemed like a pretty good start.For a time, the capital provides some amusing diversions, including a new suffragette acquaintance and the startling appearance of Tom Courtney, Denzil's nemesis. But the stifling atmosphere of the city streets soon has Sprat longing for the fresh, peaceful cliffs of her home, for the open arms of her forgiving parents -- and for the bewildered Denzil, who has no idea at all why he and Sprat can never be together . . .

The Silent Shore

Literary

Victoria Flower, motherless and nearing womanhood, is beginning to chafe against the restrictions of her life as the vicar's only daughter in a remote Cornish mining town. Her honourable and well-meaning father, though disillusioned by the impossibility of his spiritual task, thinks he has found a suitable companion for her when he introduces a gentle, musical young curate into the parish. Indeed a friendship blossoms, as Victoria finds a fellow-sufferer in his rather gauche and awkward ways. All this is to change, however, when a accident at the granite-pit brings Victoria into close contact with stone-worker Daniel Olds, whose rugged muscularity she has already secretly admired, and finds the admiration mutual. However, there is no possibility of a match. Convention and society are against them, and Dan is already promised to local girl, Mollie Coombs, who is not likely to give up her beau without a struggle. The Curate, too, shows a determined side, though he proves to have a secret of his own. Set at a time when Edwardian convention was absolute and when the Penwith mining industry was in crisis and decline, this book offers a lively glimpse at the social and economic realities of love, life and loss in early twentieth-century Cornwall.

The Granite Cliffs

Romance

Paranormal

Cornwall, England. 1914. Twin sisters Winnie and Dora are accustomed to conflict. Their fisherman father has always been a controversial figure, stirring up resentment among the locals for his modern fishing techniques. His only ambition for his daughters is to see them married well, but his plans do not include Dora falling in love with local miner's son Davy. Winnie marries wealthy businessman Nathan Zeal, whose cousin attractive older widower Zachariah shows an interest in Dora. Winnie encourages the match, and fate and family conspire to put an end to Dora's romantic hopes and her beloved job. When the Great War intervenes in all their lives, Dora, for the first time, attempts to forge a life that she wants. But can it include Davy?

Against the Tide

Contemporary

An Edwardian story of love and hope in pre-war CornwallHelena Tregenza has a loving family and many talents but her blindness makes her an object of embarrassment, especially to her vivacious sister Lucy. While Elena struggles for a place in the world, and Lucy hesitates between her childhood sweetheart and dashing, arrogant Simon Robinson, their maid Maisie cannot even afford to marry her beau. And the First World War is looming . . . What will become of the Tregenza girls?

Tregenza Girls

British & Irish

An evocative tale set in Cornwall during the First World War - Apprentice seamstresses Maud and Belinda find their days are full of fiddly alterations and difficult customers. But life changes dramatically for the girls in Penzance when the First World War rears its head. Belinda suddenly finds and enjoys a new independence and when her beau enlists, Maud learns how harsh love can be before its hardly started . . .

From Penvarris, with Love

The new romance from this popular author - Autumn 1909: Edith Trewin, the general maid in the Killivert household, and Miss Alicia, the young lady of the house, are social worlds apart, though they share a streak of independence and intelligence. The two young women become unlikely allies after a kitchen maid inexplicably disappears shortly after her arrival at the house. The two unite in the search for her as they experience love and loss as the Great War overtakes the world.

Cornish Maid

Stormy Waters (Severn House Large Print)

After a startling revelation led ""Sprat"" Nicholls to break off with her childhood sweetheart, Denzil Vargo, and quarrel with her family, she was determined to get as far away from her native Cornwall as possible -- and London, three hundred miles from home, seemed like a pretty good start.
For a time, the capital provides some amusing diversions, including a new suffragette acquaintance and the startling appearance of Tom Courtney, Denzil's nemesis. But the stifling atmosphere of the city streets soon has Sprat longing for the fresh, peaceful cliffs of her home, for the open arms of her forgiving parents -- and for the bewildered Denzil, who has no idea at all why he and Sprat can never be together . . .

The Silent Shore (Severn House Large Print)

The Granite Cliffs (Severn House Large Print)

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